The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

The Story of My Life - The original, handwritten version of the Memoirs of Arnold Goodliffe

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quite ready to give up her premises, but let me, two rooms until she gave up the whole premises. To those two rooms we wended our way on Sunday night. I had to be up early on Monday morning to go into the Fair, to buy cheese with my brother William. I left my young wife with little Edmund Wolstan, in charge of the shop. I was with my brother William on Smithy Row, about 10 o’clock, when my brother Daniel came stealthily behind me, and gave me a real eve offering on my behind part. “There”, says he, “take that you shabby fellow, for not letting me know”. We had been pet brothers. I had been annoyed that William objected to go to Church with us and decided to make no fuss or wedding party, at all, by the wish of the bride elect. The same evening, however, as Daniel, was here, William and his old lady came on to our supper with him. At supper, my young

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